Profile Blindboy Boatclub: Bandit country

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Name: Dave Chambers, aka Blindboy Boatclub

Appearance: plastic-bag-covered internet phenomenon

Newsworthiness: the comedian is set to release The Gospel According to Blindboy, his debut collection of short stories.

Some time around 2000, two schoolboy messers in Limerick started to play prank calls on local businesses. They recorded them and burned them onto a CD, and passed it around their class. “It’s grand,” their mates said, “but they’ll never get it in the ...